Re: Phase offset for OscillatorNodes?

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 5:52 AM, redman <redman@redman.demon.nl> wrote:

> On 25-Nov-12 9:41, Ray Bellis wrote:
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>> On 24/11/2012 15:01, Patrick Borgeat wrote:
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>>> A phase offset could be passed as an optional double offset=0 parameter
>>> to the start method of OscillatorNodes. A modulateable phase parameter
>>> could be interesting as well off course, but might be overkill for the Web
>>> Audio API.
>>>
>> Being able to change the phase on the fly would though allow support for
>> oscillator sync, which is a feature I've seen requested here before.
>>
>> Ray
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> Not very likely.
> For osc sync you would also need to monitor the 'carrier' waveform and
> implement a sample-accurate trigger and then hope the second syncing
> oscillator will react fast enough to the phase reset so that you get the
> desired effect.
> A better way would be to make a dual oscillator native module that allows
> for sync.
> At the very least you need some information about when the first osc is
> cycling around so that you can reset the second one but this information is
> not provided. Detecting it may be too slow as the triggering needs to be
> sample accurate.
>

I think it would be possible to get osc sync if OscillatorNode had an
attribute called something like .sync (not a great name) which could be
optionally set to another OscillatorNode.  If they were linked in such a
way then it could be implemented to be sample-accurate.



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